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The other day I drove from Wendell to Smithfield. I took Route 1003 there and returned on Route 96. The entire time I saw a total of 10 campaign signs in Johnston County. Seven were around town and three were out in the country. In Wake County I counted 10 signs between Wendell and Knightdale.

I was disappointed to see the issue of the school board's fund balance come up again in the story “Wake County District 1 opponents have similar priorities.” There are several reasons why comments about a large school board fund balance are misleading:

I have enjoyed your articles since you have been with the paper, but I am very disappointed. The newspaper that serves the three towns that most members of the East Wake Senior Center come from hasn’t paid much attention to the East Wake Senior Center.

My house is located on Lake Drive across from the library and the senior citizens’ center, in Wendell and I have lived here for 25 years. I have been with Alltel/Verizon for more than 10 years. In the last couple of years, I have been having increasing problems with my cell phone service ...

We lost the solar farm. Got it rezoned by Wake County, but neighbors in the Zebulon area didn’t want it beside the trailer park, next door or across the road. They held it up in court until Mr. Osteen moved another solar farm to Bunn where people wanted more tax base for Franklin County. ...

I was a special ed teacher for 9 years in the public schools in Durham and in Maryland. When I moved here from Maryland because my husband got a job here, I took a big pay cut. North Carolina is number 46 in terms of funding for public schools. We are last in the southeast on per pupil funding. ...

On behalf of the Wendell Council of Churches we all want to thank everyone that was able to donate to the All City Food Drive which was very successful. This is such a worthwhile cause helping the less fortunate. This will go a long way through the three church food pantries to help those in need...

On Page 4A of this week’s edition, there was a piece called “Deaths serve no lasting purpose” This was a good article, ...until you got to the last paragraph. “Memories like those would make us want to search high and low for different alternatives” True. But then...